MAJORTOM

MajorTom is an app prototype from The Phoenix Foundation that was developed during the NASA Space Apps Challenge 2019 in Vienna. The app tackles the Set Your Sights High! challenge with a gamified AR approach and focuses predominantly on a younger user base. Satellites approaching the user in 1000 km radius are visualized via NASA's WorldWind library. These satellites can be selected to display fun facts and other fascinating information regarding their function and purpose. Satellites within range can be collected and stored in the user inventory. Collecting and learning more about satellites will unlock different badges and rewards.

Pitch Presentation

Our winning pitch presentation is available as PDF.

MajorTom - Prototype

During the hackathon we developed a fully functioning prototype, which is is available right now at majortom.outdated.at

Data processing

Location processing and distance calculation is done locally, user position is never revealed to API.

• Python Flask
• R shiny
• Nginx
• satellite.js
• NASA WorldWind

Resources

• NASA WorldWind https://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/
• NASA 3D satellite models https://nasa3d.arc.nasa.gov/models
• Satellite.js for TLE propagation https://github.com/shashwatak/satellite-js
• CelesTrak for satellite TLE data and text description: https://celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/

Source Code

All of our program code is open-source and available at the Phoenix Foundation's Github repository at github.com/The-Phoenix-Foundation/majortom

App UI Preview